Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 22: The doctors in the Valley have urged the Government to establish tertiary care pediatric hospitals in north and south Kashmir to save precious human lives and lessen the burden on GB Pant Hospital, the only tertiary care pediatric center in the Valley.
President Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan today in a statement said the Government’s plan to construct another pediatric hospital in Srinagar makes no sense as it is the lack of tertiary care pediatric facilities in peripheries that leads to fatalities of infants.
“Most of the babies who are referred from peripheral hospitals to GB Pant are critically sick and it is the timely intervention that can save these fragile infants. The fatalities of these critically sick neonates are compounded by lack of Mobile Critical Care Ambulances,” Dr Nisar said.
He said it is inhumane on part of Government to say that it has no money for health which is the highest priority for any Government, anywhere as human lives are precious.
“Government has an obligation to fulfill the fundamental “Right to Equitable Health” for all citizens. It is spending public money lavishly on luxuries of its functionaries which is outrageous as it is at the cost of human lives,” he said.
He said despite public uproar over infant deaths Government seems to be non serious to control infant mortality and the poor health care in valley is the outcome of wrong practices by Government of which infants are victims.
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